Release notes for EiffelStudio 6.8

Graphical environment

What's new

Improvements

• Improved dialog that adds a new class to the system:
  • Changed button label to be more explicit about its action
  • Removed detachable status when it is not used
  • Removed unnecessary frame boxes
  • Simplified code that opens the dialog.
• Improved keyboard navigation in the Info tool.
• Avoided class counter increment in automatically generated class name if class addition is cancelled.
• Set file name of current class to the Save File As dialog.

Changes

Bug fixes

• Corrected output of the iteration (across) form of the loop construct in clickable views.
• Fixed feature call on void target when reopening a project with diagram tool that contains cluster legend.
• Fixed a bug in the Info tool: when deleting an EIS entry, selecting "No" did not actually cancel the deletion.

Compiler

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Debugger

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EiffelBuild

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Libraries

EiffelBase

• Minimized interface of ITERATION_CURSOR to simplify crafting cursors for iteration form of a loop on non-container classes, for example, on externally-driven input like files, sockets, etc.

EiffelVision2

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EiffelStore

• Various bug fixes.
• Extended types supported by EiffelStore, especially STRING_32 for Unicode string types.
• Improved memory management in EiffelStore, ODBC implementation.

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